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Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Getting and Staying in Shape - Finding the Best Core Stability Exercises

By Thaya Kareeson

Targeted abdominal exercises are only a subset of core stability exercises. People have this confusion because they see that "6-pack ABS" represent fitness and attractiveness in today's world.

Choosing the right core stability exercises for your goals involves a larger set of target muscles and can be helpful in gaining and maintaining general fitness as well as boost athletic performance and even help eliminate back pain

Let me explain the broader meaning of the term "core". Core stability exercises strengthen your body's torso, the body part that responsible for providing support for everyday movements. Strengthening the torso "core" can help you avoid back and neck pains caused by performing these same movements too often.

A strong torso also builds the base support for powerful arm and leg movements and thereby reinforces athletic performance in almost any discipline. From swimming to track and field to athletic team sports - true athletic performance is almost unthinkable without solid core stability and strength.

How do you build and maintain core stability?

Avariety of exercises should be combined for best results. You can do exercises without any aids like push-ups and crunches. Exercises with light equipment are also very effective and a great deal more interesting. These exercises can involve medicine balls, balancing balls, stability balls or dumbbells just to name a few.

Weight lifting machines such as machine assisted crunches, bench presses, or parallel bar dips can also be used to improve core strength, but at the cost of adding bulk. You want to develop core strength and stability, not just strength. Your best bet is to keep a good balance of these high resistance exercises with the low resistance exercises previously mentioned.

Core muscles are quite complexed and they should each be worked out in a certain way. It might be best to hire a personal trainer to help you monitor your training to make sure you are working out properly. A personal trainer will consider your goals and personal preference which can contribute to your long term fitness success. - 17273

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